Dramatic Elements

Question 0

Each time the setting in an act changes, the scene changes. There are several scenes in each act. Act I, scene 2, or 1.2

Answer 0

Scene

Question 1

A major unit of action in a play, comparable to a chapter in a book

Answer 1

Act

Question 2

A remark that is spoken in an undertone and is meant only for te audience

Answer 2

Aside

Question 3

Struggle between opposing forces that is the basis of the plot

Answer 3

Conflict

Question 4

Literature meant to be preformed for an audience

Answer 4

Drama

Question 5

How the characters feel about their situation

Answer 5

Mood

Question 6

How the author feels about his characters and subject matter

Answer 6

Tone

Question 7

In the shakespeare’s plays is the narrator

Answer 7

Chorus

Question 8

The sequence of action in a story: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

Answer 8

Plot

Question 9

The time and place a story takes place

Answer 9

Setting

Question 10

A speech one character makes alone on the stage (thinking out load)

Answer 10

Soliloquy

Question 11

A speech one character makes that is directed to other characters

Answer 11

Monologue

Question 12

Something small representing something large

Answer 12

Symbol

Question 13

The authors message to a reader

Answer 13

Theme

Question 14

A drama that starts in calm or comedy and ends in tragedy and violence

Answer 14

Tragedy

Question 15

The audience tacitly agrees to set aside disbelief

Answer 15

Willing Suspension of Disbelief

Question 16

When the audience knows something that the characters don’t

Answer 16

Dramatic Irony